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  1. Katherine Radeka

    A hard landing upon returning home

    I’m in the PDX area as well and also had a bit of a hard homecoming. DM if you’d like to have coffee.
  2. Katherine Radeka

    Weirdest/Strangest item someone has taken on the Camino

    I usually hike in a skirt or a dress. I started with Macabi skirts but I've been branching out. Much easier to use the outdoor facilities modestly, and I like the feeling of air on my legs on hot days.
  3. Katherine Radeka

    Order of Wandering Monks/Nuns

    There are three orders of Franciscans: the original order of Friars Minors, the wandering brotherhood, many now priests. Then the Poor Clares, a cloistered order of women founded by St Clare of Assisi. She has an incredible life story and her order was the first women’s order that had its own...
  4. Katherine Radeka

    Water Quality on the French Route: Can You Drink from the Tap/Sink?

    We are not far away from plastics made with captured carbon although they’ll be expensive at first.
  5. Katherine Radeka

    How do you fix a stage miscalculation?

    Oh that brought back some not so pleasant memories! We did the same thing - miscalculated - and had to push the distance to the max (for us) in the last five days, which wasn't helped by another miscalculation in a guidebook on the distance from Samos to the alberque we had reserved. It would...
  6. Katherine Radeka

    Thoughts on “Santiago - the Camino within”

    I remember a group we met coming down from The Iron Cross that was a parish group doing just a few random scenic bits before heading to Sarria by van to start earning their Compostelas. They were as giddy as I remember being on the hike up to Orisson. And a Franciscan spirituality center in my...
  7. Katherine Radeka

    Thoughts on “Santiago - the Camino within”

    good. I was feeling a little sad about missing it but now I feel better.
  8. Katherine Radeka

    Churches and attire?

    I've never encountered a church that requires skirts . . . but often the requirement to cover shoulders and knees (long shorts for men OK). Sarongs are one lightweight way to ensure you can meet these requirements. Churches on the Camino are used to pilgrims - how we look and how we smell :D
  9. Katherine Radeka

    What book defines 'off stage'?

    I agree with all of the above — and — some towns show up over and over in books and on web sites, etc starting with SJPP itself and then Roncevalles, Zubiri . . .
  10. Katherine Radeka

    Mailing a ReSupply Box to Correos ?

    We investigated this for similar reasons. This would work if you fly into Spain so that you can mail it from within Spain. There is a post office in SJPP but we couldn’t figure out whether or not there would still be a customs issue getting across the French border. There is a smaller post...
  11. Katherine Radeka

    How do you "relieve yourself" when a toilet is not available?

    Speaking as a norteamericana, we tend to have the extremes: either you're walking on an urban trail with lots of services, public toilets, etc or walking in wilderness where the traffic is too low to matter, and it's easy to get far enough off trail that even the worst habits aren't that...
  12. Katherine Radeka

    How do you "relieve yourself" when a toilet is not available?

    Composting toilets really only work in areas where they can manage traffic via some type of permitting system, or where the inherent difficulty of the physical challenge to get there necessarily limits traffic. I do think more could be done to make peregrino/as aware of how to use the toilet...
  13. Katherine Radeka

    Camino Ninja (RIP) - is there a way to keep it going?

    We were so sad to learn of Andy's passing. After using his app every day, he almost felt like an acquaintance, if not a friend. I used Buen Camino and Camino Ninja, for different things. For Buen Camino, I especially liked the stage-planning feature. It was a bit buggy in the sense that it...
  14. Katherine Radeka

    How do you "relieve yourself" when a toilet is not available?

    Packing out TP may sound gross but it's a lot easier than it seems. It's been the standard in wilderness areas in my part of the US for years now. In some areas, they even give you "blue bags" to carry out your poo because as others have said, it does biodegrade — but only over time — and...
  15. Katherine Radeka

    Using booking.com on your Camino

    I use booking.com a lot for business travel, so I have no problem using them to see what's available locally, and if it's a small family-owned place, or a chain where I have a loyalty account, to book direct. Oh, and yes please donate to the owner of the Buen Camino app! Much better for them...
  16. Katherine Radeka

    How to recover from a tough day

    When we do a hard hike, we always have something in the car to eat on the way home. On the Camino, we tried to do the same thing and we tried to make it so that we didn’t have to shop for it. Ideally nuts because they have fat, carbs, and protein In a compact form. Eaten with a bottle of...
  17. Katherine Radeka

    Using a second Credencial

    I had exactly this question back in May. It turned out not to be an issue at all. You just show both credentials at the office in Santiago to get your distance certificate. I found that it was easier for me to start using my second passport when we got to Sarria, mainly as a reminder to me that...
  18. Katherine Radeka

    Etiquette/ what to wear at churches

    I didn't see anyone do this on the Camino, and as an English speaker, I wouldn't have known if the priest had made this available. Here in the States, it's parish-by-parish. The more conservative ones in my diocese discourage the practice, even for children. They tell parents that they can...
  19. Katherine Radeka

    Etiquette/ what to wear at churches

    I found that my Spanish improved a lot by working out the translations for the parts of the Mass that I knew by heart. And by the end, I could say the Rosary and the Lord's Prayer in Spanish.
  20. Katherine Radeka

    Muscle cramps & other bits

    There are some excellent threads on bed bug prevention on this Forum. The main thing about cash is to always have some with you, in case you are at a place that doesn't take cards, and to be mindful of where you can find an ATM to replenish. We brought a supply of our own electrolyte tabs...

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